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Last updated on 2021-01-16.

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Thom Benjamin Volker

I am a second year’s Methodology and Statistics research master’s student with an interest in evidence aggregation, that is, combining statistical evidence of multiple studies. Other interests of mine include data science, programming, Bayesian methods and missing data problems.

Education

MSc Methods and Statistics for the Behavioural, Biomedical and Social Sciences

Utrecht, The Netherlands

Utrecht University

current - 2019

  • Thesis: Bayesian Evidence Synthesis using Bayes Factors - Combining studies with various designs
  • Weighted average grade: 8.9

MSc Sociology and Social Research

Utrecht, The Netherlands

Utrecht University

current - 2020

BA Liberal Arts and Sciences

Utrecht, The Netherlands

Utrecht University

2019 - 2016

  • Major in Pedagogical Sciences
  • Minor Sociology and Social Research
  • Electives in Philosophy

Experience

Utrecht Summer School, Department of Methods and Statistics

Utrecht, The Netherlands

Utrecht University

2019 - 2018

  • As a student assistant, I was involved in organizing the Summer School courses of the Methods and Statistics Department at Utrecht University.

Internships

Internship MICE - Federated Imputation

Utrecht, The Netherlands

Utrecht University

2020 - 2020

  • Under the supervision of Dr. Gerko Vink and Prof. Dr. Stef van Buuren.

Research Experience

Research Assistant Statistics Netherlands (CBS)

Heerlen, The Netherlands

Statistics Netherlands (CBS)

current - 2020

  • Assessing the usability of an app involved in researching the time spent performing various activities of Dutch citizens.

Research Assistant for Dr. Peter Lugtig

Utrecht, The Netherlands

Utrecht University

current - 2019

  • Contributing to research output.
  • Creating content for the course ‘Survey Data Analysis’, a first-year Research Master course
  • Multiple side-projects, as building a personal webpage and an online research repository

Research Assistant for Dr. Rebecca Kuiper

Utrecht, The Netherlands

Utrecht University

current - 2020

  • Creating content for Bachelor’s courses and Summer School courses.

Teaching Experience

Co-supervision of Bachelor’s Thesis

Utrecht, The Netherlands

Utrecht University

2020 - 2020

  • Together with Prof. Dr. Irene Klugkist, I co-supervised a Bachelor’s Student with his thesis about Bayesian Evidence Synthesis

Multiple Imputation in Practice (MIMP)

Utrecht, The Netherlands

Utrecht Summer School

2019 - 2019

  • Served as a Teaching Assistant in a course concerning Multiple Imputation for Missing Data.
  • As a TA, I provided R assistance during practicals involving the implementation of the R package ‘mice’

Theory Construction and Statistical Modeling

Utrecht, The Netherlands

Utrecht University

2019 - 2019

  • Teaching Assistant involved in practicals concerning Structural Equation Modeling using the R-package ‘lavaan’.

Methodological and Statistical Aspects of Social Science Research

Utrecht, The Netherlands

Utrecht University

2019 - 2019

  • As a teaching assistant, I gave working groups to groups of 20 Master’s students.
  • Topics covered from multiple regression to mediation and moderation analyses.

Undergraduate Bachelor’s courses in statistics

Utrecht, The Netherlands

Utrecht University

2019 - 2018

  • Teaching assistant in several undergraduate statistics courses